Nutrition

Nutritional Therapy is the treatment or prevention of disease using dietary and nutritional supplements rather than pharmaceutical drugs, which are foreign to healthy metabolism and can produce damaging side effects.

Specialist training is required in anatomy, physiology, nutritional biochemistry, pathology, environmental medicine, naturopathic principles and laboratory diagnostic procedures. A nutritionist is able to diagnose conditions relating to nutritional deficiencies and biochemical imbalance.

Biochemical and nutritional imbalances underlie all areas of poor health. Clinical nutrition focuses on identifying these imbalances and their relation to health problems. With the right laboratory tests, your symptoms can be properly investigated.

Nutritional therapy aims to restore your metabolism to a state of balance so you're your body returns to optimum health. The therapy can also help to improve your immune response and natural self-healing ability as you recover from an illness.

Numerous clinical research studies show a strong link between a poor diet and disease. If we are what we eat, digest and absorb, the quality and balance of our diet is the single most important factor keeping us in good health.

Good health is not only the absence of disease: it is a state of well-being, vitality and sustained energy, a state that many people never achieve. Optimum nutrition can mean the difference between feeling not too bad or feeling fit and well.

Your health is in your hands

A full nutritional assessment is an insurance policy against future health problems and could be the answer to those nagging symptoms that never seem to go away.